34 APPLES. 



perfectly free from angles on its sides. Eye small, almost 

 closed, flat, surrounded l>y a few very small, angular, crum- 

 pled plaits. Stalk half an inch long, slender, deeply insert- 

 ed, not protruding beyond the base. Skin rather thick, deep 

 clear green, with numerous white dots interspersed ; on the 

 sunny side, shaded with a pale livid brown ; but the whole 

 becomes yellow with keeping. Flesh very hard, pale green, 

 or yellowish white. Juice not plentiful, sub-acid, with a 

 slight aromatic flavour. An excellent culinary apple, from 

 November till the November following. 



It is a most valuable fruit, of great specific gravity, a most 

 hardy tree, an abundant bearer, and keeps longer than any 

 other apple I have ever met with. I had some perfectly 

 sound, and very firm fruit of it, in March, 1822, which were 

 grown in 1820 : the colour then was that of a pale orange. 



84. Embroidered Pippin. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 302. 

 Fenouillet Jaune. Duhamel, No. 12. 



Drap d'Or. Duhamel, No. 12. Knoop. Pom. p. 59. t. 

 10. 



Pomme de Caractere. lb. 



Fruit middle sized, somewhat globular, about two inches 

 and a half deep, and two inches and a quarter i^i diameter ; 

 a little broader at the base than the crown ; and regularly 

 formed without angles. Eye small, a little depressed. Stalk 

 short, deeply inserted. Skin greenish white when first ga- 

 thered, turning to a bright yellow, strongly marked with a 

 sort of broken ramified network of deep gray russet, hence 

 the last synonyme from Knoop. Flesh white, somev/hat 

 tough, and, with keeping, elastic. Juice not plentiful, but 

 saccharine, and of an excellent and singularly perfumed fla- 

 vour. A dessert apple from December to April. 



85. Eyer's Greening. G. Lindl. Plan of an Orchard^ 

 1796. 



Fruit middle sized, of a somewhat round flattish figure. 

 Eye large and hollow. Skin pale green, tinged with brown 

 on the sunny side, and thinly spotted with gray russetty 

 specks. Flesh pale green, firm, with a sweetish sub-acid 

 juice. A dessert and culinary apple from November till 

 March. 



86. Fail-me-never. JViirsery Catalogues. 

 Never-fail. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 629. 



Fruit above the middle size, somewhat flat, with five pro- 

 minent narrow ribs surrounding the crown. Eye small, with 

 the segments of the calyx closed, seated in a shallow, deeply 



